Momentus 7200.2 - It's alive!
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Stats can be found HERE
For those who don't follow these things - sustained transfer just under 60mb/s with a power consumption of 2.1W read/write and 0.8/0.25W idle/stby.
Thats both blisteringly fast (for a laptop drive) and excellent power usage (for a 7200 rpm drive)
All in all probably the best laptop drive out there, and available at 160Gb
For those who don't follow these things - sustained transfer just under 60mb/s with a power consumption of 2.1W read/write and 0.8/0.25W idle/stby.
Thats both blisteringly fast (for a laptop drive) and excellent power usage (for a 7200 rpm drive)
All in all probably the best laptop drive out there, and available at 160Gb
Can't wait to get back and buy one of these (160Gb for me I think 
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Rather than a re-install, I was planning to do a disk image and just clone the old one onto the new via my desktop - got 4 free sata ports so should be pretty slick - Dell is the same - 2 screws and it's out!
If you are on IDE then you'll miss these unfortunately, but if you've got the cash... you could always go with one of These
Samsung are doing a 64Gb one as well but it's >$1000 
I think I'll just stick with the shiny new seagate
)Rather than a re-install, I was planning to do a disk image and just clone the old one onto the new via my desktop - got 4 free sata ports so should be pretty slick - Dell is the same - 2 screws and it's out!
If you are on IDE then you'll miss these unfortunately, but if you've got the cash... you could always go with one of These
Samsung are doing a 64Gb one as well but it's >$1000 I think I'll just stick with the shiny new seagate
I'm going to try it with Acronis - I'll let you know how I get on with it - I'm in exactly the same boat with a Main (c: ) partition and a 'recovery' partition (I think mine is letterd d: though).
I'll be looking to image c: and d: onto the Seagate and expand the c: to fill the extra 60gb of space on the new drive. Hopefully it should be painless - I'll let you know how it goes - cross fingers.
I'll be looking to image c: and d: onto the Seagate and expand the c: to fill the extra 60gb of space on the new drive. Hopefully it should be painless - I'll let you know how it goes - cross fingers.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! 
Well - I spent about 5 hours trying to do this via the Console/Agent in Acronis and banging my head against the wall. (Curse you Gates - your card is marked!) Let's just say that trying to mix and match between XP pro and Vista with various degrees of UAC is a big fat no-no, Imagine my joy at the end of this marathon when I finally overcame all the obstacles, pointed the backup to the right network drive, only to be told that I don't have enough privileges to run the Workstation.
(And no - before you say it - it's not solved by disabling UAC - when I did that the machine I was working on disappeared from the list of clients in Acronis - nice touch
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Anyway - I finally wised up and realised that I could do everything direct from the Workstation and that simplified everything - backing up the old drive as I type.
So.... I plugged in the new Momentus thinking that it would probably be quicker/easier just to use the clone facility instead of Backup/restore... and for some reason XP only recognised it as an 80Gb drive... much scratching of head, checking nfts, ensuring no obvious limitations, and then out of desperation I checked the drive....
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Yep - they sent me out the 80Gb instead of the 160Gb (A pox on all your houses!)
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Anyway - I'm sure the admin will be sorted quickly and painlessly and I should be back up and running shortly - the good news is now that I've worked out Acronis I can't recommend it enough - once the right drive arrives it should only take a couple of hours to clone the drive and my xps will be flying - before and after benchies to follow!
Well - I spent about 5 hours trying to do this via the Console/Agent in Acronis and banging my head against the wall. (Curse you Gates - your card is marked!) Let's just say that trying to mix and match between XP pro and Vista with various degrees of UAC is a big fat no-no, Imagine my joy at the end of this marathon when I finally overcame all the obstacles, pointed the backup to the right network drive, only to be told that I don't have enough privileges to run the Workstation.
(And no - before you say it - it's not solved by disabling UAC - when I did that the machine I was working on disappeared from the list of clients in Acronis - nice touch
)Anyway - I finally wised up and realised that I could do everything direct from the Workstation and that simplified everything - backing up the old drive as I type.
So.... I plugged in the new Momentus thinking that it would probably be quicker/easier just to use the clone facility instead of Backup/restore... and for some reason XP only recognised it as an 80Gb drive... much scratching of head, checking nfts, ensuring no obvious limitations, and then out of desperation I checked the drive....
...
Yep - they sent me out the 80Gb instead of the 160Gb (A pox on all your houses!)
...
Anyway - I'm sure the admin will be sorted quickly and painlessly and I should be back up and running shortly - the good news is now that I've worked out Acronis I can't recommend it enough - once the right drive arrives it should only take a couple of hours to clone the drive and my xps will be flying - before and after benchies to follow!
Slackworth said:Give the RMA lads a call and they'll sort you out.Sorry for the problem.
Done and done - winging its way back already (like the webnote system - quick and efficient
) Now I get the anticipation all over again!I've got a spare drive kicking about so I might try out the cloning to 'perfect' my technique before it gets back to me - I have to say (MS-related wall/head reunions aside) Acronis seems very good - I like the remote management facility, might have to think about it again if I don't go down the Windows Home Server route.